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shamo

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Sha⋅mo

  [shah-maw]
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–noun
Chinese name of the Gobi.

Go⋅bi

  [goh-bee]
–noun
a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. ab. 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
Chinese, Shamo.

Related forms:
Go⋅bi⋅an, adjective
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Gobi 
desert in central Asia, from Mongolian gobi "desert." Gobi Desert is thus a pleonasm (see Sahara).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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